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by gameface 7y ago
Main takeaway here is this: > Information Systems are super-useful for hardening and regularising processes so that they follow standards, run more quickly, cheaply and smoothly and take expensive, error-prone humans out-of-the-loop. The
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by gameface 7y ago
I’ve always found the desktop hierarchy to make a lot of sense - windows, files, directories. Individual programs within that system may not always continue the abstraction I guess
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by gameface 7y ago
I thought the whole point of go was to remove extraneous features and provide a completely minimal programming language. The argument being that all those extra features are a source of bugs. Nevertheless, modules and try... it seems like
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by gameface 7y ago
Main take-away seems to be to tailor the method to the risks you face. I’m not sure how this helps, since you now need a method for identifying and prioritising risks. Hmm
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Goals and Anti-Goals(riskfirst.org)
2 points by gameface 7y ago|1 comments
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by gameface 7y ago
Doesn’t account for political problems, time management problems or the ever-present issue of people turning your estimate into a commitment, but sure.
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by gameface 7y ago
I don’t use a debugger. I just use a REPL to try things out and ‘explore’ the state of my code. If it doesn’t come back with what I’m expecting then that’s a bug. The idea of opening up a debugger again seems like a step backwards to be ho
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by gameface 7y ago
It might not have everything you want, but just using private github repos, an organisation, and the issues on there would be my preference. Most developers are already familiar with this too.
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by gameface 8y ago
Discussed a bit a few weeks back on HN, perhaps? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19084102
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by gameface 8y ago
On the other hand, as an individual working in IT I can achieve so much more than I could before... team sizes seem like they’re a lot smaller now as a result. That’s the upside, surely?
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by gameface 8y ago
Is the financial crisis a good example here? A systemic failure of risk management caused by a bonus scheme that rewarded bad behaviour and led banks to over extend themselves. Seems like it was short-term rewards rather than any failure
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Agency Risk in Software Teams(github.com)
3 points by gameface 8y ago|2 comments
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Risk-First Software Development(github.com)
64 points by gameface 8y ago|11 comments
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by gameface 9y ago
What are the reasons for wanting to run java inside docker? The jvm is supported andavailable, and portable on every environment socket is, so what does it get you?
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by gameface 9y ago
This has just been installed on all the developer PCs where I work. You can't turn it off. I guess it's another aspect of the surveillance society we're now in, but I wonder to what use these "productivity" "m
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Why Sapience built an all-seeing eye for employee productivity(techrepublic.com)
3 points by gameface 9y ago|2 comments
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by gameface 11y ago
I'm new to all this, but it seems like redux addresses a lot of these concerns, no?